St Andrew's School

Economics and Commerce are very popular subjects. In Form I, you learn some of the simple concepts of Economics and Commerce. As you grow older you learn more important concepts, such as employment, inflation, international trade, insurance and transport. The way the concepts are introduced is compatible with your level of maturity. St Andrew’s  School.

Like any other school is responsible for preparing you to enter the world of work. Economics and Commerce Education is thus aimed at assisting you to develop the basic skills you require. Economics and Commerce have both theoretical and practical justifications.

1. Economics and Commerce help to develop certain qualities of the mind which are essential for becoming useful individuals. In other words, Economics and Commerce aim at developing your intellectual power, by giving you the important principles which are currently used in everyday life.
2. The appropriately designed courses in Economics and Commerce will sharpen your understanding of economic phenomena and commercial activities and develop interest in those fields that will enable you face the world of work.
3. Economics and Commerce help you to become better economic decision-makers. You are consumers and Economics and Commerce aim at making you become more efficient consumers. They also help you have an opinion on economic problems and suggest solution to these problems.
4. We all try to make sense of the world of business around us. You need to be familiar with some economic terms and commercial ideas. Man, by nature is curious and an understanding of Economics and Commerce will help you find satisfactory explanations to what is happening around you.
5. Economics and Commerce help you to develop problem solving skills thereby encouraging critical and creative thinking.
6. Economics and Commerce help you to realise the importance of interdependence. You learn a lot for economic and commercial reasons; individuals in society are dependent upon one another.
7. Economics and Commerce help you fit in many jobs. A businessman with an economic and commercial background is better equipped to understand the business environment he will have to cope with. Indeed, Economics and Commerce help you to understand the way business is carried on.
8. Economics and Commerce get you to organise, develop and interpret data, graphs and theories. Hence you can apply your knowledge of Economics and Commerce and convert the data obtained into numerical, diagrammatical, or graphical forms and deduce relationships between the various variables.
9. Economics and Commerce help you to discover the realities of life. You will be able to understand and discuss economic problems and find solutions the way a responsible individual does it.

Indeed, Economics and Commerce are related to the immediate environment of all students. You are all eager to learn about your environment and Economics and Commerce contribute to your education by broadening your interest and by helping you to develop rational qualities. In brief, these subjects provide you with the necessary tools and techniques for resolving important issues which arise in the society in which you are growing up.